The Environmental Success Story of Our Time

Bonus Episode: Paper Valley

Steve talks with David Allen and Susan Campbell about how the book was written and why the 20 year delay.

The Environmental Success Story of Our Time

During the entire 1990s, the potential removal of PCBs from the Fox River hung in the balance. The book is Paper Valley : The fight for the Fox River Cleanup. Steve talks with the authors David Allen and Susan Campbell who were in the middle of the fight and who dedicated a decade of their professional lives to help all of us.

John Deitz and the Battle of Cameron Dam

It's the early 1900s. While lumber barons and railroad companies exploited Wisconsin resources and citizens; socialists and progressives fought back. One individual who fueled the imagination of the public was John Deitz. Listen to Steve interview local Northwest Wisconsin historian, Tamera Schutz about this David v. Goliath story.

Epilogue to Leo Burt & the Sterling Hall Bombing

Steve follows up to listener questions and comments from the previous podcast.

Leo Burt & the Bombing of Sterling Hall

In August 1970 a powerful fertilizer bomb was detonated on the UW Madison Campus. The only perpetrator not apprehended was Leo Burt. Where is he? Steve talks with former federal prosecutor John Vaudreuil about the outstanding warrant for the arrest of Leo Burt.